Sometimes I amaze myself

Front cover, which is a Gel print on cheap water color paper

Love the texture

The pages are all different sizes

Took some scraps and sat at the sewing machine for play time

Pulled out some old tags from the 100 Days adventure

Glued 2 large tags back to back and then punched holes

Page on right is brown deli paper that was used for journal protection glued to white card stock

Dina inspired page with asemic writing

When I started this little journal the other day, I made front and back covers from very pretty scrapbook papers that had a botanical theme. Once I started making pages, the covers and insides did not match. They weren't even in the same ballpark, so I pulled out some recent 12x12 papers I had used with the gel press. I cut the papers in half, so I had 6x12 inches, then folded them into 6x6 squares. I used Scor tape to glue down 2 sides, creating a pocket. Now both covers have openings at the top, and can hold additional junk journal fodder.

I like this concept a bunch. You can use whatever pieces of paper are floating around for pages: tags, commercial ephemera, old envelopes, junk mail, anything you can paint, stamp, grunge on the gel plate, whatever turns your crank. Because you control the order of the book, stuff that doesn't fit can easily be pulled and tossed or saved for the next journal. By the way, the fabric ties on 3 of the tags? Those are bits pulled off a towel rag.

Technical glitches: I have no flipping idea how this happened, but the login information for the Dropbox Cloud and the phone did not match. Once I went online to Dropbox to read what was wrong, it prompted me my login was invalid. Fixed that. Then discovered there is an option you must click on the IPhone to get your photos to upload as jpeg files. It was already done. While I was sitting at the Mac with the IPhone in my hand checking settings, the files from yesterday appeared in Dropbox. Hence today's blog title, Sometimes I amaze myself!
Linda